Main issues during breast cancer diagnosis have to be mastered

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is important, is directly related to the prognosis of the disease, so Herceptin to be reminded in the diagnosis process have the following key issues:
Asked medical history can help us get to identify a variety of breast benign and malignant disease of the necessary information. Experienced middle-aged patients, the tumor appeared to be asking the time, location, growth speed, and have done what tests and treatments, which previously suffered from a serious illness, immediate family members of patients without cancer. Herceptin to remind patients about the marriage, menstruation, birth and breastfeeding history. In addition to the central nervous system and other vital organs, but also check surface lymph nodes, especially in the pre-Division, ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes, etc. The size, shape, texture. Liver examination can not be ignored. Local breast cancer screening is an important step in clinical diagnosis, observation of the breast skin, nipple without exception, palpation of the tumor and the tumor with skin the texture of adhesion, activity, size, boundaries are clear, careful palpation areola area and a good site , with or without symptoms orange peel, dimple sign, satellite nodules, skin ulcers, nipple discharge, etc. Herceptin clinical examination can not be diagnosed if reminded, can be a variety of special inspections. Which the X-ray (mammography or dry plate radiography, angiography duct), cytology (fine needle aspiration, the filtrate smear), biopsy, X-ray computer tomography for, B-mode ultrasound and other methods most commonly used, and has a high diagnostic accuracy.

Patients with the disease now how to?


1 Doctors do not practice too much self-confidence that some doctors count on many years of experience, touched the fingers alone can know, that do not have to take X-ray sign, do B, the wrong breast cancer diagnosis of breast hyperplasia, breast fibroadenoma delay the treatment time, which is clinically the most common causes of misdiagnosis, many doctors have a hard lesson.

(2) should be thoroughly checked some disease is difficult to identify, early detection of breast cancer, a small tumor, and smooth, because the violation has not been around, so good activity, with no skin adhesion, no orange peel natural signs, X-ray and B-are difficult to diagnose, the most radical method is surgical biopsy. In fact many patients difficult to accept, the doctor has not insisted that only "observe."

3 Patients should pay attention to a lot of women do not have anti-cancer knowledge, not to do regular medical examinations, even if that breast tumor, because no pain, no itching and not to treatment; need to observe not timely referral of patients, doctors failed to grasp the changes in the disease , also caused some of the misdiagnosis.